The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-08-10
THE MILLENNIUM.
Arp Pleased With Book He Has Been
Reading.

THE MILLENNIUM
Arp Pleased With Book He Has Been
Reading.
So many have written to me to know
where Baxter's pamphlet on the milleni.
um can be had that / must answer pub
licly and say, I do not know-nor do I
know who sent it to me, nor where it
was mailed. An old friend wrote me to
send it to him and sent it. I do know
that it is no ordinary Interpretation Of
the prophecies and that it contains many
wonderful and startling facts. But
kind lady from Allegheny has sent me
book of $50 pages called the Millenial
Dawn, Charles T. Russell, and published
by the Tower Publishing company in
Pittsburg, Pa, which is far more COM
prehensive, and will,.tI believe, awaken
the thinking world. Il is in paper cover,
and worth, suppose, not more than fifty
cents. I see that its sale is already over
twenty-five thousand. 1t is impossible to
read this book without loving the writer
and pondering his wonderful solution of
the great mysteries that have troubled us
all our lives. There is hardly family
to be founddhat has not lost some loved
one who died outside the church-outside
the plan of salvation and if Calvanism be
true outside Of all hope and inside of
eternal torment and despair. We
smother our feelings and turn away from
the horrible picture. We dare not deny
the faith of our fathers, and yet eau it he
possible that the good mother and her
wandering child are forever separated
forever and forever.
I believe it is the rigidity of these
teachings that makes atheists and inf
dels and skeptics-makes Christians
unhappy and brings their gray hairs
down in sorrow to the grave-a lost
child, a lost soul.
Let US see how many lost souls. The
geographers give the world present
population of fourteen hundred million,
of whom only one hundred and sixteen
million are Christians, that is, who live
in Christian countries. Of these, only
sixteen million are adult members of the
church; and of these, about one million
walk not after the flesh, but after the
spirit. That it is beautiful picture.
Only one million of truly good, pious
Christian people in all the world, and
thirteen hundred and ninety nine
millions who are elected to be eternally
damned. Add to these figures one hun>
dred and forty. two billions who have
already lived and died in the ages past,
and if all these are damned, it does look
like Gods plan of salvation was miser-
able failure. He gets one soul for glory
while Satan captures thousands.
This wonderful book teaches that
mans trial is yet to come-that all are
to rise from the dead when Christ comes,
and that He is coming soon-very soon
within a few years, and will offer His
salvation to all people aat only to the
living, but to those who rise from the
dead. His kingdom will be supported by
the saints and by good people every
where, and the mother will have another
chance to reclaim her wandering child
and bring him unto the kingdom. This
wonderful book makes no assertions that
are not we'll sustained by the Scriptures.
1t is built up stone by stone, and upon
every stone is the text, and it becomes
pyramid of Gods love, and mercy, and
wisdom. There is nothing in the Bible
that the author denies or doubts, but
there are many texts that be throws
flood Of light upon that seems to uncover
its dark and gloomy meaning. see that
editors of leading journals, and many
orthodox ministers of different denomina.
tions, have indorsed it and have confessed
to this new and comforting light that has
dawned upon the Interpretation of Gods
book. Then let every man read and
ponder and take comfort for We are all
prisoners of hope. This is an age of
advanced thought and more thinking is
done than ever before, men dare to think
now. Light-more light is the watch
word.
Still we have plenty to do besides
thinking about the millennium. That
may be a century off or it may be only
few years. Baxter says that mistake of
a hundred years was made in the number
of years that the judges of Israel ruled
and that all modern chronologists admit
it, and that this is really 1887 instead of
1887, and that the 5000 years since the
creation of Adam have nearly passed.
Mr.. Russell says that 5000 years must
pass before Christ comes, and that they
have nearly passed. But we have good
deal to do and need not be selling out or
making white garments for we are not
going to ascend up to heaven even if the
millennium does come. Jesus Christ is
going to descend down here and set up
his kingdom, and we will have to live on
and work on under government where
not stain will mar the harmony Of
society, not q bitter thought nor an
unkind word, not an ache nor pain, nor
any decay, nor the fear of it. The
human form and feature will be perfect
in its beauty, and-although human as it
is-now will be of surprising loveliness.
Won't it be glorious to live at such
time and never die--no toothache nor
backache nor lingering rheumatism no
empty sleeves nor crutcbes nor glass eyes
nor bald heads; no quarreling about the
Ctota rood ord tho nono;cta and nr,hihi.